>I understand that Bond's strategy had been failing internally and been questioned multiple times. Bond had tried to push mobile and cloud over console, to reach potentially millions more Xbox customers, but the result has been a classic case of chasing tomorrow's customers by neglecting today's.>Phil Spencer's retirement has seemed inevitable to Xbox employees, particularly over the past year. In February last year, Spencer took a long vacation, and I'm told some teams had to wait weeks for sign-off on some key changes. Shortly after this vacation, rumors started circulating inside Microsoft that Spencer was getting ready to retire. Microsoft was eventually forced to deny the rumors in July, claiming Spencer wouldn't be retiring "anytime soon.">Some Xbox employees I've been speaking with saw the writing on the wall for Bond last year. She was promoted to Xbox president in October 2023, just days after Microsoft finalized its $68.7 billion deal to acquire Activision Blizzard.>Bond had been crucial in getting the deal over the line with regulators and slowly started to become the face of Xbox as Spencer took on the complicated duties of integrating a huge new business into Microsoft Gaming.>I understand that Bond's strategy had been failing internally and been questioned multiple times. Bond had tried to push mobile and cloud over console, to reach potentially millions more Xbox customers, but the result has been a classic case of chasing tomorrow's customers by neglecting today's.>Phil Spencer's retirement has seemed inevitable to Xbox employees, particularly over the past year. In February last year, Spencer took a long vacation, and I'm told some teams had to wait weeks for sign-off on some key changes. Shortly after this vacation, rumors started circulating inside Microsoft that Spencer was getting ready to retire. Microsoft was eventually forced to deny the rumors in July, claiming Spencer wouldn't be retiring "anytime soon."
>>733649605source?
Konichiwa mini-san
>buy 20 studios over 8 years>think they will pump out 20 great games>they produce dogshit, sub-par games and vapor ware>OH NO WHAT WENT WRONG!?!?>>733649692not hard to find.
I knew she was a Sony spy.
>>733649605Sex with Sarah.
>>733650251Trve
>>733649605I'd make mocha babies with her
>>733650251>spy>BondTop 10 vidya foreshadowings
>>733649913>not hard to find.You people should really just post the links. It takes more effort to screenshot shit, and it's not like you're keeping the source a secret like it's some niche porn site you don't want casuals invading. It's fucking clickbait news articles. I'm not saying this because I can't find it; link is below. I just think the discussions would be better if the link is present.https://www.theverge.com/tech/883015/microsoft-xbox-new-ceo-shakeup-notepad(just hit reader mode if you get the paywall, or someone can archive it)
>>733649605would
>>733649913Are they all the same? Is gaming journalism fake
>>733651586the verge posted the article(already padding the word count), leddit reposting the article and some forum talking about it.
>>733649605so why did they hire another retarded woman?
>>733649605This feels like it's blaming the wrong person
>>733649605this is a hit piece on the black chick and a fluff piece for the brown chick. very indian tactic
interesting how a board full of people obsessed with race instantly drop their act the moment a mid black woman is presented to them.
>>733649913>>they produce dogshit, sub-par games and vapor wareMicrosoft did better than most. Tango put out Hi-Fi Rush when they were allowed to do what they wanted. Rare's Grounded was an incredible success. Microsoft owns fucking Minecraft. It's easy to say Doom: The Dark Ages or whatever was not as good as older ones. Still, the point was to stop those studios from being their competition, and they definitely succeeded at that.
>>733650998Giving the clickbait sites traffic is bad. Only a topic to get the ball rolling is ever needed.
>>733650332I want to see her #girlwood
>>733652970I want to fuck that woman she voiced on Archer
This would explain not elevating Bond to the role (though honestly Microsoft didn't need any explanation beyond just implying they were cleaning leadership overall since the Xbox is currently an absolute train wreck), but this also doesn't give any reason to believe that going with some AI person will be a good idea.
>Replace Negro Gurlpower with Jeet Gurlpower.Excellent, the next race war will be with colored woman. Indians and Blacks. Which side will the liberal whyte woman pick? I honestly can see blacks being anti indian, by the end of trump administration. Too many jeets holding powerful positions in gonvt and corporate. And what are they? 1st or 2nd gen immigrants? The blacks wont like this.>>733649913Spencer is a hack. Peter Moore was obviously the man who knew how things were done and knew what it took to win. Xbox, EA, Liverpool.
>Bond became the scapegoat of Nadella's retarded decisions expected
>>733650998>You people should really just post the links
>>733649605Even when viewed in terms of cold business logic, this marketing never made sense. Why would non-traditional gamers care about Xbox? Imagine if Netflix tried to build their brand by saying "your iPhone is a Netflix!" nobody would have any clue wtf they were talking about.
>brown women office politicsBIDEO JAMES!!!!!!!
>>733653986i'm sorry your coomer thread died
>>733649913Most of those didn't put out shit for years after acquisition. What the hell were they doing? In the time it took Ninja Theory to spit out Hellblade 2: Schizo's Crashout, Capcom spit out 4 Resident Evil games (REmake 3, RE:Sistance, RE7, REmake 4). You can't even blame Bleeding Edge, that game only had 10-20 people working on it.>>733652596>Microsoft did better than most.What the fuck are you talking about? They started massive acquisitions in 2018 and you can only list 2 games? Mojang was acquired in 2014 so that shouldn't even factor into their acquisition spree. They didn't succeed in shit. These acquisitions didn't stop competition, especially when they were giving them away to the competition. They weren't taking chess pieces off the board, they were putting them back with extra. They managed to take a cash cow that was Call of Duty and made it stumble. Their strategy is actively making things worse for them and those around them.
>>733652596Go down the list of the studios they acquired and the games they had(and apparently still have) in production. If all those games had come out and had been just decent, xbox wouldn't be needing gamepass to keep the lights on. That is clearly a managerial issue. Either Phil was too involved(constantly demanding redesigns) or too hands off(let them create greatness on their own). Either way it isn't working which is why Phil was all like "even a bunch of 10/10s wouldn't help us win this gen."
>>733653651>Peter Moore was obviously the man who knew how things were done and knew what it took to win.Xbox was always the brand for reliable dude bro games. They weren't reinventing the wheel but they were following a tried and true recipe and came out at a decent pace. Right now i'd kill for a steady stream of 2010s modern military stealth action games.
>>733653575i predict she gets sacked soon. they had to put someone there for quick measure
>err akshully it's Sarah Bond's strategy that ruined Xbox, not the complete lack of fucking games>Matt Booty deserved his promotion after Halo Infinite was delayed and flopped, Redfall flopped, Avowed and Outer Wilds 2 flopped, Hifi Rush won awards but he closed Tango, Gears hasn't released a game in 7 years, Forza Motorsport flopped, and Call of Duty had its worst year ever>No it's definitely Sarah Bond's fault for trying to get people to join game pass
>>733655571>Right now i'd kill for a steady stream of 2010s modern military stealth action games.
AROUND BLACKS
>>733655683At least those games were finished on release. Maybe some had a "complete edition" a year later but they didn't release in a broken and unfinished state after being in development for a decade and rebooted twice.
>>733655360Everyone's saying he was too hands-off, Arkane devs were devastated that he didn't come in and cancel Redfall.
>>733649605>I understand that Bond's strategy had been failing internally and been questioned multiple times. Bond had tried to push mobile and cloud over console, to reach potentially millions more Xbox customers, but the result has been a classic case of chasing tomorrow's customers by neglecting today's.funny how internet retards figured this out years ago yet an 'elite' tech CEO couldn't
>>733655683kys tranny
>>733655683I mean, why not? That's the Xbox Demographic, give them what they want. Every now and then, Xbox would have too much money, would need to burn it off and we would end up with some random Japanese colllab.
>>733655675>i predict she gets sacked soon. they had to put someone there for quick measureAsha Sharma wasn't an emergency option, based on the same article this was planned out for months.>Phil Spencer, Microsoft’s long-term Xbox chief, made the decision to resign from Microsoft last year after a tough few years for Xbox. The giant Activision Blizzard acquisition had dragged on for far longer than Microsoft had anticipated, and the need to grow the business saw Microsoft walk away from Xbox-exclusive games in favor of a multiplatform strategy. Microsoft has also been trying to reinvent the Xbox brand beyond the console, with mixed results.>Spencer’s decision led to months of careful successor planning. It was announced to the world on Friday, but it was supposed to be today. Microsoft was forced to announce early because it started to leak and IGN was planning to run a story, according to sources familiar with the situation.
>>733657484Ass Shartma was brewing down there for months. Imagine the smell of that office.
>>733654635lmao, do you actually think your retarded circlejerking about which billionaires make more or less shekels is more important than porn? Are you that fucking delusional?
>>733658596Discussing the state of gaming is on-topic, your coomer thread isn't. Fuck off.
>>733649605>blaming Sarah for their own fuck upShe sucked ass but they were all on board with it and advocated for it. I don't want to hear it.
>>733659270Yeah, I don't buy this pinning everything on Sarah. All these fuckers signed off on it. She may have spearheaded it, but they all said yes. Especially that piece of shit Phil.
Why does Microsoft refuse to accept everything started going wrong with the brand when they went all in on the Kinect?
>>733649605https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MW6K8oBFB4E
>>733652492what? nigger people called her a nigger on here day one
